View from Up Here

I used to take intimacy on my back

This is a common condition

among the people I know well

This is when eye contact gets weird

and one starts to wonder if feeling good

is about to end

This is why the next person I sleep with

will know my body

before they know my lips

I find sex to be distant

compared to kissing

Can I hold your hand and ask you favors

can we get so mad at one another

that we do not speak for two days

but still sleep next to each other?

If you feel the same way as me

then you are already and always

my friend